Conference Presentations:
Reasoning about Causal Interventions in Rats is not due to Retrospective Revaluation. (Paper presented at The Origins of Causal Cognition International Expert Meeting, Lignely, Belgium, 2007.) Power Point
ARENA: Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus. (Paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, 2006, Melbourne, FL). Power Point. (Video of ARENA: Rat and Pigeon. Video Close up of pigeon pecking ARENA sensor)
CS Preexposure Illuminates the Different Associative Structures of Forward and Backward Pavlovian Conditioning. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2003, Vancouver, BC). Power Point
Integration of spatial maps acquired through sensory preconditioning in pigeons. (Paper presented at the XIV Congress of the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology, 2002, Seville, Spain). Power Point
A history of brief time: Perception, attention, and responding in the pigeon. (Paper presented at the Attraction, Distraction, and Action: An interdisciplinary conference and workshop on attentional capture, Villanova University, PA, 2000). Power Point
Videos:
Rat performing in 12-arm radial maze wmv
Pigeon performing in a landmark-based visual-search task on a touchscreen wmv
Rat pressing a lever to receive sucrose solution
close up (mpeg 30megs) (avi 112megs), whole box (mpeg 30megs) (avi 112 megs)
Two rats lever pressing for sucrose solution
close up (mpeg 29megs) (avi 112megs)
Other Work:
The adaptive significance of beliefs about the afterlife (Paper from a course on human behavior and evolution taught by David Sloan Wilson). PDF
The monkey and the man. html
Lab tools: